I'll admit that the crowd here is a little Swifter than any I have ever known, and maybe you have some right to your private opinions that I didn't see before.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
And in that pitiful last meeting, there had been a flash from Hyde's eyes, that said to her-she knew not what of unconquerable love and wrong and sorrow-a flash Swifter than lightning and equally potential.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
Freedling watched how with plunge and curve he went over the bowed trees; and again he neighed into the darkness of the night, then Swifter than wind disappeared in the distance.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman